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CANDY-PULLING MACHINE.

SPECIFICATION forming part .of Letters Patent Ho. 752,979, dated Februal y 23, 1904. Application filed September 17,1903. 'Berial No. 173,500. (No model.)

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This invention relates to candy-pulling ma chines, and has for its object-to provide a simple and efiicient mechanism whereby the operation of pulling candy may be mechanically performed in an efficient manner.

To this end the invention consists in certain novel features, which Iwill now proceed to describe and will then particularly point out in the claims.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure l is a side elevation of a machine embodying my invention in one form. Fig. 2 is a rear elevation of the same. Fig. 3 is aside elevation of a modified form of the invention, and Fig. 4 is a front elevation of the machine shown in Fig.3. I

Referring first to the more essential features of the machine, it comprises a supporting-frame consisting of a suitable base 1 and an upright or standard 2. Mounted upon this frame or standard is an arm 3, vibrating or oscillating upon a pivotal axis 4, located between its ends, said ends having fingers 5 loacted on opposite sides of said pivotal axis. This arm 3 I shall term the oscillatingarm for the purpose of identification. Its axis of motion 4 is in the form of a shaft on which said arm is secured, said shaft being mounted in a horizontal position in a suitable bearing 6 in the standard or frame 2. The fingers 5 project forward from the front face of the 0scillating arm'andare preferably downwardlycurved, as shown more particularly in Fig. 1.

7 indicates a vibrating arm moving on a pivotal axis 8 at one end, preferably the upper end, and provided at its otheror free end with a finger 9, similar to the fingers 5. .Mo-

tion is imparted to these arms in such a way that assuming that the machine starts from the position shown in Fi 2 the fingers 5 will swing backward and forward across the path of the finger 9. In ,practice the finger 5 nearest the finger 9 moves upward as this latter finger approaches it, so said finger 9 passes under said finger 5. Said finger 9 passes over the second finger 5, thus passing between the two fingers in its movement from one side of the machine to the other. During the return stroke of the arm 7 the finger 9 passes under the finger 5 nearest to it, over which it passed on its outstroke and passing between the two fingers 5 passes over that one of them which it passed under at the beginning of its outstroke. The candy being laid over the fingers 5, so as to extend from one to the other when the machine is started, it will be seen that the finger 9 will work or pull the candy by passing underneath and pulling it upward at a point between the two fingers 5, on which it is supported, this pulling action occuring at each movement of the. arm 7 in either di- -rection.

The mechanism by which the movements of the arms 3 and '7 are obtained may be of any suitable description. In the form of machine shown in Figs. 1 and 2 there is mounted on a bracket 10 on the main frame a drivingshaft 11, on which are mounted fast and loose pulleys 12 and 13. Said shaft 11 is provided with a'pinion 14, which meshes with a gear 15, mounted in a bearing 16 on the main frame.

This gear is provided with a crank-pin 17, projecting from the rear face of the gear, in which itis mounted eceentrically. A rocker-arm 18 is pivoted at its upper end. on the frame .2, and its lower end is carried down back of the rear face of the gear 15, as shown at 19. This portion of the rocker-arm is provided with a longitudinal slot 20,-through which the pin 17 extends, so that as the gear 15 rotates the rocker-arm 18 vibrates. The arm 18 is provided with a gear-segment 21, which meshes with a similar segment 22 on the rear end of the shaft ;4=,;thereby imparting an oscillating movement to the arm 3. A link 23 has its lower end pivotally mounted on the crank 17,

while its upper end is pivotally connected to an arm 24, secured on the rear end of the shaft 8, which carries the arm '7, thereby imparting the necessary vibrating movement to said arm 7. p

In the form of machineshown in Figs. 3

and 4 the driving-shaft is indicated at and is provided with the fast and loose pulleys 26 and 27 and with a pinion 28. This pinion meshes with a gear 29, which is provided on its front face with a crank-pin 30, eccentrically mounted therein. On the crank-pin is journaled the lower end of a connecting-rod 31, the upper end of which is pivoted to an arm 32 on the shaft 8 of the arm 7 which is vibrated thereby. The connecting-rod 31 has secured to it, so as to move in unison therewith, a grooved bar 33, this connection being preferably eifected by arms 34, connecting the upper and lower ends of said grooved bar with the connecting-rod. The shaft 4 of the oscillating arm3 is, provided at its rear end with an upwardly-extending arm 35, having a pin or projection 36, preferably provided with an antifriction-roller which travels in the grooved bar 33. In this way an oscillating movement is imparted to the arm 3.

In Figs. 3 and 4 I have also shown provision for adjusting the relations and movements of the parts. For instance, the arm 3 is provided at each end with a plurality of apertures 37 to receive the fingers 5, which may thus be adjusted nearer to or farther from the axis of motion of the arm 3L Similarly, the arm 7 is shown provided at its lower end with a plurality of apertures 38, by means of which the finger 9 may be adjusted toward and from the axis of motion of the arm 7. I have also shown the arm 32 as provided with a plurality of apertures 39, by means of which the pivotal connection of the rod31 to said arm may be adjusted so as to vary the throw or distance traveled by the arm 7 and its finger 9.

The adjustment of the parts just described is applicable equally to the structure shown in Figs. 1 and 2;

It is obvious that various other modifications in the details of construction may be; made without departing from the principle of my invention, and I therefore do not wish to be understood aslimiting myself strictly to the precise details hereinbefore described, and shown in the accompanying drawings.

Having thus fully described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

1. A candy-pulling machine comprising an oscillating arm having fingers on opposite sides of its axis of motion, and avibrating arm provided with a finger across the path of which the fingers of the oscillating arm move, the axes of said arms being parallel and said fingers supporting the candy, substantially as described.

2. A candy-pulling machine comprising an oscillating arm having fingers on opposite sides of its axis of motion, and a vibrating arm provided with a finger across the path of which the fingers of the oscillating arm move, the finger of the vibrating arm passing between the fingers of the oscillating arm, the axes of said arms being parallel and said fingers supporting the candy, substantially as described.

3. A candy-pulling machine comprising an oscillating arm havingfingers on opposite sides of its axis of motion, and a vibrating arm provided with a finger across the path of which the fingers of the oscillating arm move, the finger of the vibrating arm passing at each movement between the fingers of the oscillating arm from below upward, substantially as described.

4. A candy-pulling machine'comprising an arm oscillating on a central horizontal axis and having fingers on opposite sides of said axis, in combination with a vibrating arm having at its upper end an axis parallel with and above that of the oscillating arm, said vibrating arm being provided with a finger at its lower end, the fingers of the oscillating arm moving across the path of the finger of the vibrating arm, and the finger of the vibrating arm pass ing between the fingers of the oscillating arm I from below upward at each movement of the vibrating arm in either direction, substantially as described.

5. A candy-pullingv machine comprising a rotating wheel provided with a crank-pin, a rocker-arm slotted to receive said crank-pin and provided with a gear-segment, an oscillating arm provided with fingers at its ends and a central shafthaving a gear-segment meshing with that of the rocker-arm, a vibrating arm having a finger the path of which is crossed by the paths of the fingers of the oscillating arm, a shaft carrying said vibrating arm and provided with a crank-arm, and a link connecting said crank-arm with the crank-pin of the revolving wheel, substantially as described.

In testimony whereof I affix my signature in presence of two witnesses.

DENNIS T. IGOU.

Witnesses:

GERTRUDE YOUNG, Gr. HOWARD WALMSLEY. 

